Pages

Sunday, June 11, 2017

Quote of the Week and the Week to Come

“And, what do you ask, does writing teach us? First and
foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a
privilege, not a right.” ~ Ray Bradbury

Source Wikipedia

Ray Douglas Bradbury(August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an Americanauthorandscreenwriter.
He worked in a variety of genres, includingfantasy,science fiction,horrorandmystery
fiction.

Widely known
for hisdystopiannovelFahrenheit 451(1953), and his science fiction and
horror story collectionsThe
Martian Chronicles(1950),The Illustrated Man(1951), andI Sing the Body Electric(1969), Bradbury was one of the most
celebrated 20th- and 21st-century American writers. While most of his best-known
work is inspeculative fiction,
he also wrote in other genres, such as the coming-of-age novelDandelion Wine(1957) or the fictionalized memoirGreen Shadows, White Whale(1992).

Recipient of
numerous awards, including a 2007Pulitzer
Citation, Bradbury also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television
scripts, includingMoby DickandIt
Came from Outer Space. Many of his works were adapted to comic book,
television and film formats.

On his death in
2012,The New York Timescalled Bradbury "the writer most
responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream."

Pikes Peak Writers

Welcome to the official blog of Pikes Peak Writers. We aim to inform, educate, enrich, and entertain writers. NOTE: The posts appearing on this blog may not be reposted or reprinted without the express permission of the author and Pikes Peak Writers.